finally crossed a long term item off the bucket list... so it's time to convert my media room into a more projector friendly environment, while still maintaining maf (me acceptance factor)... this won't be a dedicated room, i live in here for the most part, and i'm not a big fan of living in the dark...

hopefully it won't take forever... any and all comments/suggestions are welcome... i'm pretty much starting from scratch, and can do anything that i want in here...

to start, here's what i've got for "stuff"...

- pj: vivitek h5080
- screen: have a black diamond on order (106" 16X9). currently using a da-lite manual to tide me over until the bd gets here.
- audio: salk speakers (ht2-tl's, htc, custom ht1 on-walls), dual seaton submersives...
- electronics: depends on the day...
- room: white, white, white. this will change as the project moves on... i also have white traps, which i'm planning on re-covering with darker gom...

as noted in the first post... any and all ideas/critiques/etc. are welcome...

You posted this image:

With a pair of SubMersives in the room, the main question will be if you get lucky with the wall/shelf... I'm betting you will have some vibration in the projector, and thereby the picture at some frequency with the mounting as shown, but you might be OK if the brackets are into studs and the floor isn't shaking too much or the walls sit on a foundation.

house is a turn of the century (last century ) building... brick... two stories (my room is on the 2nd floor)... no load bearing walls at all, the house is supported by HUGE beams that run between the two long walls (wood must have been cheap in those days)...

yea, i'm a bit concerned about that... i used lag screws and screwed it directly to the wall studs... remains to be seen what will happen when the submersives really fire... they certainly make other things shake... one thing is for sure... it won't fall down... i gave it my usual "hang all my weight off it test", and it didn't go anywhere...

gonna do something more "permanent" with that in the long run... i really should ceiling mount it... i'll need about a 4 foot drop if i go that direction, as the pj "wants" to be pretty much in the middle of the room, heightwise...

just found your thread, chris
keep those pics coming. looks like it's coming along

You know, I never thought of subwoofer vibration when I was considering going PJ/screen route myself. And I had to spend some effort quieting down my own room, lots of buzzes and rattles. Weatherstripping, foam, and those felt pads became my friend

will do... got the kuro off the wall yesterday and moved the screen so it hangs on the wall rather than the hangers... went to joann and bought myself 10 yards of black felt to cover the front wall with as an experiment... going to try to get that up tonight when i get home from the office...

lol... yea, i've already been down that path... run a test tone through the sub, see what rattles/shakes... add foam/whatever, remove rattle... lather, rinse, repeat... took awhile, but i'm reasonably "shake/rattle" free in this room... other places in the house, not so much...

not real sure on that... a couple of guys have told me they fabricate their own drop poles on site, etc.

trying to figure out which mount system to use right now... as with previous mounts i've bought for other stuff, it seems to come down to either peerless or chief... anyone who would like to chime in with their opinions is welcome to do so... i was considering using a short throw wall mount (the chief one looks pretty solid from the pics) as it would be a LOT easier, but the "shake" consideration might come in there... have to put on some real "boom boom boom" stuff and see what kind of shake i get from my homemade shelf...

with the ceiling mount, i'm going to need about a 4 foot drop... ideal pj location is about 5 feet off the floor... the ceiling joists are 4X12's, so it should be plenty solid... i'm going to have to use wiremold to get power to it, as the only other conceivable way to do that would be to tap into my ceiling fan, and that's switched...

looks good. I found the pure black wall too much for me. I used a sponge roller and aded some texture to the wall with a lighter color (that I then used on the surrouding wall). When my screen is up I don't feel like I am in a black hole, but when it's down I do -except the screen image. Just a thought.

looks good. I found the pure black wall too much for me. I used a sponge roller and aded some texture to the wall with a lighter color (that I then used on the surrouding wall). When my screen is up I don't feel like I am in a black hole, but when it's down I do -except the screen image. Just a thought.

made a bit more progress... got a second coat of primer on the walls, and 2 coats of paint... the worst part of the job is over! YAY!!!! i DESPISE painting... now i can put my room back in some semblance of order again (not to mention find all the tools that are strewn about in there)...

i had gone back and forth on several paint schemes, and finally decided to steal the one that i liked the best, which is bigmouthindc's grey/black scheme... valspar "drizzling mist" on the walls now... baseboards/trim to be determined, but baseboards will be a very dark color and trim will be a color lighter than the walls...

i got two of them stretched with gom today... the rest will have to wait until tomorrow... it's not hard, but it is tedious, and my aged knees ain't happy with all this up and down, up and down...

frame laid out on cut fabric...

first staples, canvas pliers holding other side tight...

two finished products... came out nice and tight... still need to trim the leftover fabric on the back... my corners pretty much suck too, but that's not visible from the front...

i'm pretty happy with the way they are turning out... the stretchers are a godsend... when you factor in the the time and aggravation they saved me, they are a bargain (and it's not like they cost a lot to begin with)...

even bringing it to the door wouldn't work... it would fall in the middle of the window (not to mention a radiator that is NOT moving)... and again, if i did bring it to the door, the room would only be 7-8 feet deep...

also keep in mind that these are rear-ported transmission line speakers, and they require a certain amount of space behind them...

if i was building a dedicated space, and had the room, i'd definitely go with a false wall... but it's not feasible in the space i'm in, unfortunately...

thanks chris... i'm hoping that i'm reaching the end of the journey... if nothing else, i've reached the limitations of how much stuff i can actually cram into this room... although with a bit of creativity, i MIGHT be able to get another subm in here...

i fully expect a visit from you once it's done... we will eat, drink and be extremely merry...

i'll admit i'm running out of energy... the only thing i got done yesterday was to push some stuff around and check out some subwoofer locations... sadly, i've had a setback there, i've got an amplifier problem on one of the subs... waiting to hear from mark on that... shouldn't be an issue getting it taken care of... it's possible the electronics gods are telling me that it's time to do the amp upgrade...

the screen is "on fedex vehicle for delivery"... with any kind of luck, it will be "on chris' wall for watching" by tonight... i was hoping to have the room completely ready when it got here, and i'm close... i've got to stretch 3 more panels for the bass trap covers and get those mounted... ought to be able to knock that out in 2 or 3 hours... i've also got to re-cover two wall panels, but that shouldn't take long at all...

other than that:

- swmbo needs to pick the trim colors, which i'm hoping to get done this weekend...

- swap out white receptacles for black...

- construct/find an appropriate center channel stand...

- going to try to order the pj mount either today or early next week, depending on when various people get back to me with prices on it... unless something drastically changes, i'm going to use one of the chief wall mounts for it...

- need to decide where to put the rack for all the other stuff... everything (including the pj) is now on a very high tech rack that i got from home depot... translated: a heavy duty shelving unit that i crammed behind the couch to get everything out of the way... the "best" place would be in the back right corner, but there's a window there... we'll see how that works out...

- need to find a remote controlled motorized black out shade for the back window... i should probably do this on the other two windows as well... motorized shades are painfully expensive...

- after the screen is in, then i can experiment with lighting... i already removed the ones that were directly above the projector... i think the high mounted side ones are going to be ok... we'll see where everything ends up with that, i'm going to go with good old fashioned "trial and error" there...

- need to order some triple black velvet and:

1) make/stretch panels to go around the screen...
2) make covers for the speakers...

all in all, i'm pretty satisfied with the progress thus far... i should have a functional setup within 2 weeks of starting the project... for me, that's a miracle...

Are you going to eventually have this room set up so that the Kuro is used when the screen is up? If yes, maybe think about a motorized adjustable shelf for the center channel so you can switch between "TV mode" vs. "Theater Mode." I assume you would also want separate EQ profiles for each mode that you can easily toggle. If the Kuro is out of the picture then I'd suggest ordering another main as a CC for an exact match across the front stage. Isn't it nice of me to spend your money??

Is that wooden wardrobe a built-in? If so, I would suggest you remove the doors and mount new doors that would allow you to isolate all of your gear, except the actual projector) into one neat space. As long as your gear could breathe a bit in that space this would lower the noise floor and tidy things up. Just an idea.